Improvement in scissors



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HORACE S. BREEDEN, OF BARRY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSORS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. l54,637, dated September 1, 1874; application filed April 25, 1874.

To all whom it may cancer-n Be it known that I, HoRAoE S. BREEDEN, of Barry, in the county of Pike and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Ilnprovement in Scissors, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

The figures of drawing are plan views, showing the scissors, respectively, shut and open.

A B represent the lever-blades. I construct a double-shouldered catch,0, and pivot it in a recess, 1), of blade A, so that it may readily turn around in a small arc. I form on the blade B a projection, e, which may be received by and made to rest on the shoulders of catch Gon one when the blades are closed, and on the other when they are open.

In order to hold the catch and projection locked, either when the blades are closed or HORACE S. BREEDEN.

Witnesses:

JAMES P. OASSIDY, JOHN H. BROWN. 

